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Dopethrone will blow your mind.
Dopethrone will make you deaf.
Dopethrone will make you want to destroy.
Dopethrone is genius.

With every guitar and bass down-tuned, the sound of Dopethrone is hate. In 2000, when Dopethrone came out, Electric Wizard was able to embody everything that is Metal music; heaviness, destruction, anger, hate, etc. This is because on Dopethrone Electric Wizard is honest. They put up no facades. Not once do they seem like what much of metal music seems to be; suburban boys who decided to dress up like death and make their mommies angry.

Dopethrone is not like other metal albums because more than any other band they have taken an important idea from metal gods, Black Sabbath; melody is important. Much of metal forsakes melody, for speed, overdrive, and satanic riffs, but the end result is faux-satanic garbage. These band's music does not seem evil, but rather like a sad joke. Electric Wizard on the other hand utilizes the guitar and bass as melody makers. Creating both memorable riffs/lead guitar and mind blowing heaviness.

The weight of the songs on Dopethrone is unbelievably strong; the slow and unrelenting pounding of almost tribal drums, the bass throbbing in it's moaning and cyclical chants, and the guitars screaming when in the lead but always coming back to be part of the team, chanting and destroying as the tidal wave of sounds rip your ears apart. But the vocals are the last touch that put Electric Wizard above every other doom band. They do not scream in your ear, feign unnecessary hatred, but rather come beautifully paired with the music behind them. They are the highest pitch, when the band is blasting full out, singing with almost a cult leader type affirmation, the vocals create juxtaposition and unity in the music. Sometimes the vocals mix with the lead guitar in matched pitch,  creating a religious ferver, that accompanies the words. Great music is religious, creating feelings of accompaniment and gratefulness for the moment, both of which, besides the hateful sentiment the album holds, Dopethrone gives.  It asks you to relive, remember, and imagine; pain and hate, war and carnage, death and destruction. That's why it's brilliant. The power with which it is able to make you feel these issues is why it is great, and will forever be great. Because while anyone can make a song that makes you feel good, all great albums hand you a new lens to see the world in, even if it's just for that 45 minutes. Whether that lens gives you green fields or darkness, you are seeing differently. When you listen to Dopethrone you're not just listening to heavy music, the world outside is actually getting dimmer.

U KAN TRRNT FLS ONLNE.
(I'm not getting taken down by the fedz.)

XoXo